Non Communicable Diseases

Risk Factors

Vision & Mission

A country where all citizens enjoy optimum health, free from preventable illness, stigma, disability, morbidity and mortality due to NCDs.

What We Do

Advocacy

Lead advocacy to fulfil political commitments on NCD prevention and control in keeping with the
health promotion principles of building
healthy public policies, creating supportive environments and reorienting health services.

Capacity Development

Strengthen the capacity of members of the NCD Alliance Lanka and the communities served by the members in keeping with the health promotion principles of strengthening community actions and developing personal skills.

Knowledge Exchange

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Messages

Noncommunicable diseases or NCDs are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the WHO South-East Asia Region. All Member States of the Region have agreed on concrete time-bound commitments on NCDs and have embarked on a multisectoral response to face the challenges related to their prevention and control.

Civil society organizations are also a key partner in this response. Civil society has at least three major unique functions in NCD prevention and control. First, in regard to advocacy and galvanizing action at all levels to stimulate public and political awareness and interest in NCDs; second, to ensure accountability by tracking commitments by governments and other stakeholders—including those in the private sector; and third, in the area of service delivery, to extend and enhance NCD cares to supplement those provided by governments.

Meeting the global targets on NCDs will require an active and vibrant civil society to drive awareness, access, advocacy and accountability on NCDs. The NCD Alliance is fully supportive of the growing network of national and regional NCD alliances around the world, which are providing vital platforms for unified action. NCD prevention and control in Sri Lanka will benefit from the efforts of a coordinated and mobilised alliance, such as the Sri Lanka NCD Alliance. The Sri Lanka NCD Alliance will join a group of 45 national and regional NCD alliances part of the bigger network of the NCD Alliance. Its launch will help accelerate national progress on NCDs and will help translate global commitments into concrete gains for its local.

Ms. Katie Dain

Executive Director, Global NCD Alliance

News & Videos

Latest News

Dr. Chamari Warnapura, Deputy Medical Director of Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka, in action at the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of Diabetes and Non Communicable Diseases held on the 5th of July 2018 at the UN headquarters in New York.